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Subject(s)

• Historical reenactments—Case studies [Browse]
• Public history—Case studies [Browse]
• Collective memory [Browse]

Editor

• Agnew, Vanessa [Browse]
• Stach, Sabine, 1982- [Browse]
• Tomann, Juliane, 1981- [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in modern history [More in this series]

Summary note

"Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics. Reenactment is a global phenomenon that encompasses living history, historical reality television, performance art, theater, historically-informed music performance, experimental archeology, pilgrimage, battle reenactment, live-action role play, and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity, embodiment, affect, the performative and subjective. As such, reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge-making, representation, and commemoration. Yet, in terms of its historical subject matter, styles, and subcultures, reenactment is often nationally or locally inflected. The book thus asks how domestic reenactment practices relate to global ones, as well as to the spread of new populisms, and postcolonial and decolonizing movements. The book is the first to address these questions through reenactment case studies drawn from various world regions. Forming a companion volume to the Reenactment Studies Handbook: Key Terms in the Field (2020), Reenactment Case Studies is aimed at a wide academic readership, especially in the fields of history, film studies, memory studies, performance studies, museum and heritage studies, cultural and literary studies, and anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

"A companion volume to the "Reenactment Studies Handbook: Key Terms in the Field" (2020)."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Raising Questions of Evidence
• Reaffirming Understandings of the Past
• Challenging Narratives about the Past
• Restaging Lives
• Negotiating Justice.

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Other title(s)

Global perspectives on experiential history

ISBN

• 9781138333963 (hardcover)
• 1138333964 (hardcover)
• 9781032324555 (paperback)
• 1032324554 (paperback)

LCCN

2022027803

OCLC

1337408915

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